every linkspam you used

2. If you bought it more than five years ago but haven’t read it yet, give it away

The book you bought because you liked the cover. The book you got because it would be ‘good for research’. The book you bought when you went through a succulent obsession. If you haven’t read it five years after you bought it, get rid of it. You are not going to read that thing.

I feel so attacked right now.

Also, hopefully by the time this post goes live, the nice people from Savers will have picked up the three large bags of books and clothes I left outside my door this morning.

Remember that time Queensland was dependent on slave labour? Or maybe you don’t, since it’s not a big part of Australia’s history curriculum. This article is a good overview of both the history and the current debate about statues of racist assholes: